Combined shaving-brush and soap-holder



.J. MCGUIRE.

COMBINED SHAVING BRUSH AND SOAP HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED DEC.26, 1919.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

/5 MHHH A TTORNEYS JOSEPH MCGUIRE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED SI-IAVING--BRUSH AN D SOAP-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed December 26, 1919. Serial N 0. 347,353.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH MCGUIRE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadel phia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Shaving-Brush and Soap-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to combination toilet articles for mens use.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a combined shaving brush and soap holder of a most compact and convenient nature making the device especially useful to a traveling man or any other whose packin or storing facilities are limited.

Flore specifically the improvement enibodies a shaving brush having a telescopic handle providing for ample length for use of the brush and yet assuring a minimum volume or length when in idle position. Cooperating with the brush is a container for the purpose of keeping the brush clean and sanitary when not in use, and serving at the-same time as a soap holder and ejector assuring that the soap may be used most conveniently and economically until the last particle of the soap is used.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which. like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my combined device in closed and collapsed form.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the soap holder cap.

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of the plunger barrel indicating its relation to the soap holder as when in use.

Fig. 5is a side elevation of the brush with its telescopic handle in section and extended for practical use.

Fig. 6 is a plan view.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my improved combined device as comprising a shaving brush 1O signed as to have a screw thread formed thereon from one end to the other and on both the inner and outer surfaces. To one end of the shell is permanently fixed a knob 13 constituting a finger piece for the manipulation of the shell and brush and also acting as a closure for the tubular shell. This knob may be made of any suitable material of a rigid nature and constitutes a permanent fixture upon the shell. The otherwise open end of the shell is adapted to receive the base 11 of the brush, the threads of the several members cooperating with each other as will be readily understood from the drawings.

1% indicates a soap holder and is preferably made as a cylinder open at both ends but provided with a screw thread from one end to the other. Any suitable form of soap such as a stick S may be carried in this holder 14:, the main portion of the soap being carried within the holder, but with a suitable portion projecting therefrom for use upon the face in a manner well understood'by men who shave themselves. Cooperating with this soap holder is a closure cap 15 adapted to cover the otherwise exposed end of the soap while the threaded portion 15 of the cap is adapted to screw upon the outside of the upper end of the holder 14k as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Only a portion of the rim of the cap is threaded whereby it is assured that the cap may be screwed upon the holder with suflicient tightness to prevent accidental loosening of the cap.

At 16 I show a plunger barrel serving several important functions as follows: First, this member has a closed end 17, a screw threaded cylindrical body, and a smooth open end at 18. The thread formed on the member 16 is designed to receive in it the handle shell 12. Assuming that the brush base 11 is screwed well down toward the not only collapsed in the shortest'possible form, but also will beneatly housed within the barrel, the cap or knob 130i the handle serving as a neat finish or closure for the otherwise open end 18 of the barrel and against which theflared end portion 13" of the knob is adapted to bear directly and with sufiicient friction to insure that no accidental loosening of the parts will take place. The contact between the base 11 and the shell 12 may be relatively loose along the threads and yet no inconvenience will result because the brush is well and reliably housed within the barrel 16 except when in use. The abutting of the cap or knob 13 against the end 18 of the barrel will insure sufiiciently tight grip between these parts even though the threading action may be relatively easy.

The flat closed end 17 of the barrel constitutes the barrel into a plunger for forcing the bar of soap S outward from the soap holder from time to time as may be required as a result of the wearing down of the ex posed end 01" the soap. The soap from its nature may be fitted in the holder fairly tightly and will not drop out under any ordinary circumstances. The action of the plunger against the soap will always insure a relatively tight grip between the holder and the exterior surface of the plunger barrel. Therefore no looseness or inadvertent relative movement between these two parts is liable to take place.

The device made also entirely of relatively thin sheet material may be manufactured very cheaply and yet of a most durable and efficient nature, and with ordiintense 'nary care will last indefinitely. When one handle and a plunger barrel serving as a casing for the brush 'and'a plunger to deliver the soap from the holder, said plunger barrel being provided with an internal screw thread to receive the external thread of the handle and with an external thread for cooperation withthe internal thread of the soap holder.

2. In a combined device of the class set forth, the combination of a barrel having one end closed and the other end open and provided intermediate of its ends with an internal screw thread, a brush whose handle comprises a base with an external screw thread and a shell with an internal screw thread for cooperation with the base thread and an external screw thread for cooperation -with the internal thread of the barrel into which barrel the brush is adapted to be nested when the brush base is adjusted far into the handle shell, and a knob serving to close the otherwise open end of the shell and adapted to abut against the open end of the barrel, said knob having a flaring edge for frictional cooperation with said open end of the shell, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH MoGUIRE. 

